person
Menenius Agrippa
also: Menenii
The consul of 503 BC remembered for the fable of the belly and the limbs, by which he reconciled the seceding plebs; cited as a genuinely 'ancient' speaker.
Reading notes
- A Dialogue on Oratory §17 Menenius Agrippa
The consul of 503 BC of the fable of the belly and the limbs; a genuinely ancient speaker, by contrast with the late-Republican orators.